The databases developers use most (Stack Overflow Survey 2024)
The top 3 according to 12 votes from people: PostgreSQL · Supabase · MySQL. (Updated Sep 4, 2025.)
PostgreSQL stays in front, used by almost half of developers, ahead of MySQL and SQLite. The 20 most used databases in Stack Overflow's 2024 Developer Survey, with the share of all respondents who worked with each over the past year.
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Top 20
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PostgreSQL
No. 1: used by 48.7% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Supabase
No. 15: used by 4% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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MySQL
No. 2: used by 40.3% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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SQLite
No. 3: used by 33.1% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Microsoft SQL Server
No. 4: used by 25.3% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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MongoDB
No. 5: used by 24.8% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Oracle
No. 9: used by 10.1% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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H2
No. 16: used by 3.8% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Redis
No. 6: used by 20% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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MariaDB
No. 7: used by 17.2% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Elasticsearch
No. 8: used by 12.5% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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DynamoDB
No. 10: used by 7.9% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Firebase Realtime Database
No. 11: used by 5.8% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Cloud Firestore
No. 12: used by 5.4% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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BigQuery
No. 13: used by 4.8% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Cosmos DB
No. 17: used by 3.3% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Snowflake
No. 18: used by 2.6% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Cassandra
No. 20: used by 2.4% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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Microsoft Access
No. 14: used by 4.2% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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InfluxDB
No. 19: used by 2.5% of developers who answered the 2024 survey.
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